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I'm the primary instructor for the Coursera Specialization in GIS, which is composed of the following five courses (free to take for no grade). Teaching on Coursera is a wild ride since you reach tens of thousands of students from countries all over the world who speak different languages. It keeps me on my toes, making sure I explain things well to individuals with a wide variety of experience and keep the course materials updated so that students finish the courses with modern skills. I built these courses along with the Online Education group at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education (formerly Extension). The courses are designed to be taken in order, or as part of the whole specialization.

I'm the instructor for the Coursera Specialization in GIS. This video is one of the introductory videos to explain what GIS is and what it can do, helping everyone get on the same page before teaching the core skills...

I'm the instructor for the Coursera Specialization in GIS. This video is used in the first course to help students understand that GIS data is a representation of the real world, but that we lose information in that translation....

I'm the instructor for the Coursera Specialization in GIS. In this video, I showed the students how to use one of the core tools (and concepts) of GIS - and my personal favorite tool - the Spatial Join.
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I'm the instructor for the Coursera Specialization in GIS. This video is an introduction to the core concepts of databases with which users of GIS should be familiar. In the video, and the second video that continues the topic,...

I'm the instructor for the Coursera Specialization in GIS. This video is one of many in a series that teaches the core concepts of projections and coordinate systems to students, to help them understand how we display and manage...